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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
... was down three cents to $37.40, rival Rio Tinto was steady at $97.00 and Alumina nudged up one cent to $8.45. Aequs Securities institutional dealer Ric Klusman said today's trade was lacklustre, with banks pulling the market up and miners, surprisingly ...

Maxim throws weight on unlisted property

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
... investors access to a number of wholesale products otherwise not generally available. Maxim also manages the Maxim Property Securities Fund, which returned 26 per cent over the 2006/7 financial year.

Hiking partners: Aussie dollar and Kiwi inflation

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
... will get little, if any, money back after unprecedented losses in the value of AAA rated sub-prime mortgage backed securities which have left these funds almost worthless. The Aussie dollar was also supported by comments from the Reserve Bank Governor ...

WRF taps demand for alternatives

WRF Securities has signaled its plans to be a major player in global property and alternative assets after it appointed industry stalwart Maurice Kluge to the top job. Maurice Kluge, formerly head of property funds management at Allco, was appointed ...

Basis Capital suspends yield fund

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
... derivatives such as collateralised debt obligations, collateralised loan obligations and sub-prime mortgage backed securities, reported a loss of 13.7 per cent in the month of June, wiping out all gains for the previous 12 months. In a letter to investors ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
... currency continues its run of fresh highs as it works its way towards the $US0.8795 high set on February 15, 1989. Grange Securities chief economist Stephen Roberts said the Australian dollar kept to a tight trading range this morning, in the absence ...

Economic round up: Inflation climbing, can rates hold?

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
... economy has displayed a miraculous sponge-like ability to absorb demand pressures but for how long? According to Grange Securities chief economist, Steven Roberts, the economy is now looking "very stretched" and the RBA might drag its feet, but will ...

Good times keep rolling for ASX funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
... merger and acquisition activity underpinned the fourth consecutive year of above-20 per cent returns for the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), with the market benchmark posting a heady 29.2 per cent, said Morningstar. The returns record has been ...

Macq steaks $700m fund

... an asset class overseas." Macquarie Pastoral hopes to raise $1.16 billion (US$1 billion) and list on the Australian Securities Exchange in five to eight years' time. Michelle Baltazar

Economic round-up: Mortgage meltdown misery

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2007
... second-largest underwriter of mortgage bonds, these funds collapsed from substantial losses on sub-prime mortgage backed securities. To make matters worse ratings agencies Moody's and Standard and Poor's have finally both said 'enough', although many ...